Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun methuselah

2 senses of methuselah

Sense 1
Methuselah -- ((Old Testament) a patriarch (grandfather of Noah) who is said to have lived 969 years)
       INSTANCE OF=> patriarch -- (any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race)

Sense 2
old man, greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah -- (a man who is very old)
       => oldster, old person, senior citizen, golden ager -- (an elderly person)
       => man, adult male -- (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus")